House of Representatives (HoR) President Ageela Saleh has appointed Gaddafi’s loyalist Mohamed Belgassem Zway as his Maghreb affairs adviser, reports say. Mohamed Belgassem Zway was Muammar Gaddafi’s close aid until the fall of the former Libyan ruler in 2011. He was released in June 2013 after a court acquitted him along with Abdulati Al-Obeidi, Gaddafi’s former foreign minister. Another Libyan court renewed charges against Belgassem Zway in July 2015 and sentenced him to 12 years in prison. HoR is opposed to UN-backed Government of National Accord installed in Tripoli.

Source: The North Africa Journal April 03, 2017 15:45 UTC